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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 11d

This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...

SuB30 Program

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 14d

PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.

BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 20

The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Jul 14

Visiting Professor Michael Everdell coauthored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages"

www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages

Across languages, words with the meanings of adjectives in English (property concept lexemes; Thompson 1989) often have translational equivalents that are nominal or verbal instead (Dixon 1982). Regar...

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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · Jun 15

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...

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Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 6

Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 28

Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference!

You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 27

Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation.

Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 23

Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.

4 BU Ling members posing in front of a door. Text says 'BU LING AT ACAL May, 2025 | University of Minnesota University
TALKS:
Felix Kpogo and Rebecca Bonney: Doubly-articulated Stops are not Immune to Segmental Reduction: Evidence from Gã Children's Speech

Ousmane Cisse: Graphemic Variation of /n/ and its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami
POSTERS
•Romi Hill: Syntactic Constraints on the Morphophonology of Reduplication
Jackson Kellogg: Paradigmatic initial strengthening of voiced, voiceless, and ejective stops in Amharic

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 22

After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He will be joining their English department in the Fall of 2025!

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 21

PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume!

You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 20

Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled "What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?"
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10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP

The 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP 2025) will be hosted by NAACL 2025 and held on 4th May 2025. The workshop is being organised by Vaibhav Adlakha, Alexandra Chronopoulou,...

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 19

Congratulations to all our graduates from this weekend!
#graduation #linguistics #phd #convocation

A sign that says "CAS Linguistics Convocation & Reception"

Three of our professors smiling next to our two doctoral graduates

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 13

Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding for his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...

Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research | American Philosophical Society

The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 12

At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!

#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal

Poster with the talks for MorphoMO workshop in Montreal

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 5

PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at @lavlang.bsky.social this summer in Manchester!

She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · May 1

PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation!

GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 27

Earlier this month, PhD student Romi Hill presented at Harvard's WOLF (Working on Language in the Field) lab! Her talk was on reduplication in Bantu.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 22

Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled "Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi". Congrats!

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU— @binghamtonu.bsky.social that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations!

Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both!

#phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics

Danny stands with his arms around both Lee-Ann and Kevin's shoulders

- Kevin Samejon: "National identity and regionality among Philippine English speakers in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu: A variationist study of alveolar fricative production"

Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas: Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociophonetic Study of Liquid Production in Boston Spanish"

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Mar 20

In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai'i!

Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."

8 people stand around a poster on a tack-board. Becca Wheeler, the presenter, has red curly hair and is wearing a bright green dress. She is smiling at a viewer who is speaking.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · Mar 18

PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse presented earlier this month at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! His abstract was titled "The Graphemic Variation of /ŋ/ and Its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami". Congrats, Ousmane!

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